| American Notebooks: A Writer's Journey Contributor(s): Blais, Marie-Claire (Author), Gaboriau, Linda (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0889223580 ISBN-13: 9780889223585 Publisher: Talonbooks OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.57" W x 7.97" (0.57 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It is the spring of 1963. The young Quebec author Marie-Claire Blais, bursting with energy and talent, has just won a coveted Guggenheim fellowship. She chooses Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the place where she will begin her writer's apprenticeship with her mentor, Edmund Wilson. American Notebooks is much more than a fascinating autobiographical account of the intellectual flowering of a great writer. An album of exquisitely drawn literary portraits of companions, intellectuals, writers, musicians, artists and social activists of the period--Edmund and Elena Wilson; Mary Meigs; Maud Maugan; Barbara Deming; Truman Capote; Jacques H bert, her first Quebec publisher, then senator; and many others--it also introduces many of the real life personalities who have inspired her fictional characters. |